LITERATURE QUESTIONS
GOTHIC LITERATURE
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If the children gathered about her, as they sometimes did, Pearl would grow positively terrible in her puny wrath, snatching up stones to fling at them.
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The infant, during the latter portion of her ordeal, pierced the air with its wailings and screams.
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wouldst though avenge thyself on the innocent babe?
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The child’s attire, on the other hand, was a distinguished by a fanciful, or, we might rather say, a fantastic ingenuity ____
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Detailed explanation-1: -The effect of the scarlet letter upon has Hester is tragic because she spends most her time alienated and lonely. Pearl’s character is mischievous. She shares qualities with her mother and both are isolated. Pearl is considered a “Child of sin” and is isolated by other children as well.
Detailed explanation-2: -Pearl had inherited all of this hatred and passion, as if by right, directly from Hester’s heart. Mother and daughter stood together, excluded from human society. Pearl exhibited the same wild nature that had distracted Hester Prynne before her daughter’s birth but that motherhood had begun to soften away.
Detailed explanation-3: -Hester worries about Pearl’s personality because her wild tendencies could get both of them in huge trouble if it were to get out of hand. Hester feels the circumstances of Pearl’s birth might have affected her because she was born illegally.
Detailed explanation-4: -Seeing the scarlet letter on the ground and her mother’s hair sensuously falling about her shoulders, Pearl points her finger, stamps her foot, shrieks, and “bursts into a fit of passion.” Hester’s and Dimmesdale’s reactions to Pearl’s behavior vary.